Features
BCI staff vote to support Creative Centre
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Features
The Creative Centre will take in a very welcome package of materials and goods to be used in its creations thanks to a donation from the Bank of the Cook Islands. Two BCI representatives stopped by the centre this week with a cheque in hand worth exactly $1331. Creative Centre manager Bob Kimiangatau said the […]
Christmas in the Park gets greener
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Features
People looking for some Christmas spirit will be able to get a double dose of jolly joy at the BCI Stadium on Wednesday, December 14. This years Christmas in the Park celebrations will be a little more green than green and red when the event takes on the theme of recycling. All the stalls, entertainment […]
Have you got the H Factor?
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Features
A new talent quest will take place in Rarotonga next year, searching for the Cook Islands best idle singers who think they have the x-factor. The six-week singing competition dubbed The H Factor is now putting out a call to the Cook Islands potential superstars. With competition set to begin in earnest in February, organisers […]
Sisters sing of islands they adore
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Features
The Gosselin sisters are preparing to release their first-ever album. Each sister has her own repertoire of musical productions, but never before have the Gosselin girls collaborated to produce an album. The reason behind this project was that we had so many friends, family and supporters of our individual CDs asking us to do an […]
Expectations of Mauke
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Features
In this week’s Kids Page, Apii Te Uki Ou students share their experiences on Mauke when they visited the island for a school trip recently. We have extracted snippets from each of the short stories for today’s Kids Page. Thanks to teacher Jo Weir for providing the stories for today’s page. I experienced 3 caves […]
Do you know Jesus?
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Church Talk
The well known saying is so true, Not what you know, its WHO you know Now we need to ask ourselves who told us this, was it our parents, teachers, friends? Because who we know makes life easier, we can get jobs, strike a good deal, health referrals, we get free things, opportunities etc Who […]
Big ups and hip-hop love
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
King Kapisis newest music video, filmed in Rarotonga, was officially released on Thursday. The song is called Clap ya Hands and features shots of the Muri lagoon, Punanga Nui marketplace, Polynesian Tattoo hut, Pacific Resort Rarotonga, and a host of local faces. Miss South Pacific 2010-2011 Joyana Meyer dances throughout, as Pacific Resort staff drum […]
Annie Crummer wins premiere award
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Singer Annie Crummer, who has Cook Islands roots, has been honoured with the premiere senior arts award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards in Wellington. Chair of Creative New Zealands Pacific Arts Committee, Pele Walker, said the awards are an opportunity to celebrate the creative success of those making a difference internationally, nationally […]
Trevs Ticket catches its second wind
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Twice-famous, Trevor Richards (formerly Trevor Tombleson) is living his dream all over again. The 60-something owner of Polynesian Tax Free Ltd, who moonlights as Whateva Treva on 88FM, is remembering what it feels like to be a 20-something rocker. His band Ticket took the New Zealands 1970s acid-rock scene by storm but disbanded in 1973. […]
Local Girl Guide inspired in Mexico
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
A Rarotongan Girl Guide made the long trip to Mexico last month to get some guidance of her own. Twenty-five-year-old Tuati Mauke joined up with Girl Guides members from across the world at an international Girl Guides get together in the central Mexican city Cuernavaca in October. In Mexico, Mauke learnt a number of advocacy […]
New caf on the southside
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Coffee lovers who live on Rarotongas south side will welcome Coco Latte, a cafe and healthy eatery that opened this week in the space across from Wigmores Superstore. The newest addition to the Coco Putt enterprise owned by Tokerau Tooks Turia and partner Meegan and their New Zealand counterparts. Manager Jo Bevin oversees the cafe […]
Rentraro picks up Telecom prize pack
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Rentraro.com had just one house up for rent when it was first launched in 1996 and now the Cook Islands upstart has more than 100 available for bookings to tourists. This month, website owner Pai Chambers and her company Heritage Holdings received the Telecom internet marketing award at the biennial Air New Zealand Tourism Awards […]
Beautiful new oe and vaka art
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
The Art Studios final exhibition of the year is a celebration of all things related to Te Moana Nui O Kiva her waves, her marine life, Tangaroa, the vaka and the oe. It is a beautiful, well-presented tribute to the eighth annual Vaka Eiva festival, and encompasses the work of dozens of local artists, both […]
Design winners
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Two grade 6 students from Apii Te Uki Ou have been rewarded for their thoughts and design of a road safety awareness poster. Jack Sutherland and Tyler Davis won $50 each and $100 for the school in the World Health Organisation-funded competition, which was managed locally through the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of […]
Favourite recipes by Blackrock kids
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
The junior chefs of Blackrock Apii Potiki have chosen their favourite treats among them, marshmallow balls, easiest fudge in the world and caramel corn and compiled them into a 130-page recipe book. The cover of the book features the students smiling faces, and its pages their favourite recipes. Each recipe is attributed to a Blackrock […]
Finding a happier place, continued
Friday 25 November 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Several weeks back, I wrote an article in an attempt to address the emotional and sensitive topic of youth suicide. I wish to further address this topic, as indicated prior. Suicide is becoming a popular choice amongst a cross section of youth. They perceive it leads to a happier place. I am neither a social […]
Five spiritual heroes graduate
Friday 25 November 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Five teenage spiritual heroes received their graduation diplomas recently as students of the Church Education Systems Seminary programme for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The five students have battled against the odds for four consecutive years to learn the scriptures at early morning classes to increase their knowledge of God, his son […]
Personifications and Pilgrims Progress
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Features
Who inspires me? My older brother, Adam, has been a big influence in my life. He is a passionate and committed person, and dedicated to fulfilling the purpose that God has planned for his life. Ever since he was 12-years of age, my brother Adam has always known what he wanted to be and what […]
10 artists in Metamorphis
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Features
To celebrate its 63rd art project and its evolution from a small local operation to an internationally-recognised contemporary art gallery the Beachcomber has chosen 10 prominent artists to be part of its current group exhibition. The exhibition entitled Metamorphis comprises the work of artists Loretta Reynolds, Tim Buchanan, Joan Gragg, Kay George, Reuben Patterson, Andy […]
Regional tsunami exercise makes waves in the Cooks
Saturday 19 November 2011 | Published in Features
The tsunami warning exercise last Wednesday was not a test dreamed up by the team at Emergency Management Cook Islands, but in fact was part of a Pacific wide exercise with 29 participating countries within the Pacific region including Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. Codenamed Exercise Pacific Wave 11, the exercise was to simulate national […]
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